Foreword -- An aristocrat's beginnings -- The Harvard man -- Love at first sight -- A dude enters politics -- Out in the Badlands -- "Writing is horribly hard work" -- Family life in Washington -- New York's top cop -- A great campaigner -- Ambitions abroad -- A splendid little war -- From Governor to Vice President -- In the White House -- Strikers and roller skates -- Booker T. Washington and Brownsville -- Muckrakers and progressives -- The conservationist -- The big stick -- The bull moose charges again -- A safari, a war, and death

Foreword -- An aristocrat's beginnings -- The Harvard man -- Love at first sight -- A dude enters politics -- Out in the Badlands -- "Writing is horribly hard work" -- Family life in Washington -- New York's top cop -- A great campaigner -- Ambitions abroad -- A splendid little war -- From Governor to Vice President -- In the White House -- Strikers and roller skates -- Booker T. Washington and Brownsville -- Muckrakers and progressives -- The conservationist -- The big stick -- The bull moose charges again -- A safari, a war, and death